Erymanthian Boar

In Greek mythology, the Erymanthian Boar (Greek: ὁ Ἐρυμάνθιοs κάπρος; Latin: aper Erymanthius) is a creature. It is known in connection with The Twelve Labours, in which Heracles, the enemy of Hera, visited all the other sites of the Goddess throughout the world to defeat every monster that nature could imagine, and return the early world to his Olympian father, Zeus, who would be its new master.

Heracles and the Erymanthian Boar, by Louis Tuaillon, 1904 (Berlin Tierpark)

References

• Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths 1955.
• Kerenyi, Karl, The Heroes of the Greeks 1959.
• Carl A. P. Ruck and Danny Staples, The World of Classical Myth, 1994.
• Ovid, Heroides
• Apollodorus, ii.5.4ff
• Diodorus Siculus iv.12
• Apollonius of Rhodes i.122ff
• Pausanias, Greece

Other websites

• Greek Mountain Flora Archived 2008-01-18 at the Wayback Machine
• Theoi Project : Erymanthian Boar, Giant boar of Arcadia